Seat+Waiver+Time

Tina Swenor

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In reading on the seat waiver time, I have come to understand that it is a way for students to take their high school classes without having to physically be in the classroom. According to the michigan.gov website, a school district can offer pupils access to online learning options and they can continue to work on attaining a high school diploma or grade progression without physically attending the school facility. There are certain requirements that the student must meet. One of those is that the student must be present at the school or logged into one of their online classes on count day. When it comes to participation the student must have interaction with their mentor at least four times a week in order to get participation credits. The district is required to pay all expenses for the students and they must provide them with a computer that has internet access.===== This would impact a professional educator in a way that they would have to have excellent computer knowledge in order to help students with any technology problems they may have. With teaching online instruction, the teacher does not have the ability to get to know their students and this would make it hard to assess their strengths and weaknesses.

michigan.gov - this link gives information on who is eligible for the seat waiver time and what they have to do to stay eligible. I picked this website because it helped me to understand exactly what seat time waiver is.

Michigan Virtual School - this site gives access to the classes available to students as well as links for teachers and administrators.

[] - this is a research paper into whether or not online learning really makes a difference when it comes to graduation rates for at risk students.